Brown, Lee P. (Lee Patrick), 1937-
Lee Patrick Brown (born October 4, 1937) is an American politician, criminologist and businessman. A member of the Democratic Party, he dserved as the 59th Mayor of Houston, Texas- the first African American to hold the position- from 1998 to 2004.
Born in Wewoka, Oklahoma, his family moved to California in the second wave of the Great Migration. He received a B.A. in criminology from Fresno State University in California in 1960 and four years later earned an M.A. from San Jose State University in the same field. In 1970 he received a Ph.D. in criminology from the University of California, Berkeley. Brown began working as a patrol officer for the San Jose Police Department during his college years. In 1968, he took a teaching post at Portland State University in Oregon. In 1972, Brown was appointed associate director of the Institute for Urban Affairs and Research at Howard University in Washington, D.C., a job he held until 1975. Brown returned to Oregon and became a deputy sheriff for Multnomah County, Oregon for two years. By 1976, he was named the Director of the Multnomah County Department of Justice. As public safety commissioner of Atlanta, Georgia, from 1978 to 1982, Brown and his staff cracked the Atlanta Child Murders case.
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